About

I like to consider myself a lifelong learner. These days I spend most of my time working on large scale Cloud Native Data Centre Networks, using technologies such as:

• Whitebox switches with Open Source routing suites: Nvidia Mellanox/Edgecore + Cumulus FRR.
• Juniper MX routers and vQFX/EX switches.
• Fortinet Fortigate, Cisco ASA and Juniper vSRX firewalls.
• 3-Stage and 5-Stage Clos fabrics with VXLAN BGP EVPN.
• Service Provider Technologies: MPLS, L2/L3 VPNs, IS-IS, MP-BGP, RSVP-TE, Traffic Engineering, CoS.
• Network Automation: Ansible, Python, REST and JSON APIs, Git, Jinja2, YAML, Napalm, Nornir, Netbox.

Current active certifications:

• Cisco Certified Network Professional Enterprise (CCNP Enterprise)
• Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Design
• Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation
• Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core
• Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching)
• JNCIS x 3
  • Juniper Networks Certified Specialist, Automation and DevOps (JNCIS-DevOps)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Specialist, Enterprise Routing & Switching (JNCIS-ENT)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Specialist, Service Provider Routing & Switching (JNCIS-SP)
• JNCIA x 5
  • Juniper Networks Certified Associate, Cloud (JNCIA-Cloud)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Associate, Security (JNCIA-SEC)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Associate, Automation and DevOps (JNCIA-DevOps)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Design Associate (JNCDA)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Associate, Junos (JNCIA-Junos)
• Cumulus Certified Open Networking Professional

I intend for this blog to be:

1. A learning tool for myself, if I force myself to write about some technology I’m learning, it’ll solidify my understanding and my long-term retention.
2. A source of revision of the technologies I’ve learnt overtime.
3. A source of useful content that can help other people.